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people are unbelievable

Kimberly — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:34:04 +0000

Arizona Humane Society found a little Chihuahua, with its legs duct taped and a bag tied around its head, on the side of the road. I cannot believe that someone out there is so unfeeling and disturbed to do this to a helpless animal. There is absolutely nothing that can excuse or explain this. I would like to think the guilty party will be caught but I doubt it. Hopefully the guilt will eat them alive.

big brother is watching…everywhere

Kimberly — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:33:09 +0000

Working as a crisis counselor in the mental health field, I am well aware of the rampant prescription drug abuse occurring in our communities. In particular, teenagers are buying and selling drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin on school campuses to get high. Of course I want this trend to cease. But I am not sure I like the way Arizona is going about it. If you have a script for meds such as OxyContin, Amben or Vicodin, then once you fill it your name and other info is put into a tracking system. Then a doctor or pharmacist can look up patients to see when they last had a scripts filled for prescription meds such as Ambien and Vicodin to see if the patient is “doctor shopping.” I think this is a privacy issue and makes me very uncomfortable.

bad chlorine, bad

Kimberly — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:45:14 +0000

I don’t think anybody ever thought chlorine was a good thing. But most of us probably thought it was a necessity. I actually refuse to use bleach when doing my laundry and I have minimized cleaning products in my house that have bleach or chlorine. For cleaning and doing dishes I instead try to use brands such as Method and Seventh Generation. I also utilize Clorox Green Works.

One thing I have not thought about is bleached paper. I think I am currently using bleached coffee filters, which after reading this article from Care2, I am now in fear off. But I hate to waste things so I will probably continue to use them and then once gone, buy unbleached filters.

Christmas horror

Kimberly — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:44:35 +0000

The horror of this story is hard to fathom. A possibly mentally ill man followed 2 young, harmless boys into a nearby park and beat them severely in the head. Then walked back to his home. The boys suffered such extreme injuries that they both died a day after Christmas. Thanks to a neighbors surveillance camera the police were able to identify the man and arrest him. Just leaves me speechless that such things occur in this world. I work in the mental health arena as a crisis counselor, and it scares me to think anyone of the clients I have seen could have this inside them.

museum director deserves disciplinary action

Kimberly — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:42:41 +0000

The museum director who destroyed the diorama that Highland High students spent 3.5 years and thousands of hours of labor on deserves to have disciplinary action enforced. It is ridiculous that he destroyed the diorama instead of contacting the school and requestion any inaccuracies fixed. What I find most interesting is that he was released from other museums for not following agency policies. Maybe he has an authority complex.

not sure what is wrong with people

Kimberly — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:16:43 +0000

High school students spent 3 years on this diorama that was given to a museum in Texas, who subsequently dismantled it in a very destructive way, according to the articles I have read. If the diorama was inaccurate in some details, couldn’t they just have asked that it be changed to be completely accurate?

What makes it even more disturbing is that the students followed the description of the battle depicted that was found in a book authored by the person who destroyed it. I always knew Texas was weired!

you mean I have to study?

Kimberly — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:01:27 +0000

I lived in the ASU dorms for a year and a half. They never had anything like the new dorms have. And they certainly didn’t have tanning booths and cabanas like the new apartment student living complex, Vista Del Sol will have.

I’m all for having a comfort level when you are away in a dorm, trying to adjust to not living at home. But isn’t it little over the top? I mean, come on. The focus should be on school not all the extras. I know they say university rules will be enforced but I think it is clear in the description that fun is the focus of this new complex.

If students have the choice of sitting out at the cabana or going to class I think the cabana wins.